From the nineteenth century’s pamphlets to the twentieth century’s TV ad revolution, our elections have always been shaped by how we communicate and consume information. There’s no question that the Internet is set to deliver more political information, opinion and news than any other medium throughout...

With just a few hours of 2011 remaining in Mountain View, Calif., we’re taking our traditional look at the past year on the Official Google Blog, as well as Google’s presence on Google+ and Twitter. On the blog this year, we published 471 posts (including this one)—17 more than 2010. Those posts...

In many parts of the world, today is Christmas—but in Russia and Eastern Europe, which use the Orthodox calendar , December 25 is just an ordinary day. Little known to most, however, it’s also a day that marks the anniversary of a key development in European computer history. Sixty years ago today,...

It’s that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?” NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started in 1955 , when a Sears and Roebuck ad promoting the Talk-to-Santa hotline inadvertently...

Professor registration for the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) is now open. GOMC is a global online marketing competition open to professors and their students in any higher education institution. Professors sign up for the contest and then serve as guides and mentors to their student participants...

Our main goal at Google Search is to bring you the most relevant and useful results as quickly as possible. But, we are aware that often that is only part of your task or journey. Sometimes, you need more than simple results. Visit link: Test your creativity with our search caption challenge

Last Friday Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Canada See more here: One more present under the tree—custom video messages from Santa

One hundred years into the future, when our great-grandkids look back to what was capturing the world’s imagination on YouTube in 2011, what will they make of us? See the original post: What were we watching this year? Let’s rewind 2011.

We’ve made a new $94 million investment in a portfolio of four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects being built by Recurrent Energy near Sacramento, California. More: Ending the year with another clean energy investment

Last week we unveiled this year’s Zeitgeist, including the fastest rising searches in 2011. Those of us on the Google Green team were pleased that the search trends include several popular searches related to the environment (as you can see from the highlights video ) Read More: Make your own online...